herself right athwart the nose of the boat. He then sent the lance
right into her and killed her stone dead. Mansfield, in hauling up
his whale got on top of Captain Mills' whale, which stove in
Mansfield's boat, and sent all his men flying in the air. There was
a rush then to pick up the men. Charles Mills, finding his whale
dead, struck a whiff in the lance-hole he had made when he killed
her, cut the line that was fast to her, and bent it on to another
spare iron. Mansfield's whale then milled round and came right on to
Charles Mills' boat, and he fastened to her. This gave him a claim
of one half of her, so that Mills and his men got two and a half out
of the three whales. The men were all picked up. Mills' whales were
anchored about half-a-mile from the schooner, and the boats went out
next morning and took them in tow.

The whales tow very easily when fresh killed, but if they are allowed
to get stiff their fins stand out and hinder the towing. When the
two whales were brought alongside the schooner, the boats of Kelly's
party were seen fast to a whale off Black Nose Point. Charles Mills
pulled over, and when he arrived he found a loose whale, Mansfield
and Chase being fast to two other whales. Mills fastened to the
loose whale, and then the three whales fouled the three lines, and
rolled them all together like a warp, which made it difficult to kill
them. After the men had pulled up on them for some time with the
oars, two of them began spouting blood and sickened, and Chase's boat
got on to them and capsized. Then the whales took to running, and
Mansfield cut his line to pick up Chase and his crew. Mansfield's
whale being sick, went in a flurry and died. Mills' whale and
Chase's worked together until Mills killed his whale; he then whiffed
her and fastened to Chase's whale, which gave him a claim for half,
and he killed her; so that his party got one and a-half out of the